I'm surprised that your motherboard manual doesn't give more information
for use of these kind of Athlon 64 heat sink retention brackets.  Out of
curiosity, which brand and model motherboard are you going to install you
Athlon 64 to?

I haven't had the opportunity to build up an Athlon 64 system, yet.
However, the sort of retention bracket and back plate that you are working
with appears to the standard specified by AMD for this processor.

Take a look at the information available in this AMD technical paper,
starting about page 20, which I have created a shortened url to:
  http://tinyurl.com/ywvo9

The reason AMD has gone to this design is that it will better support the
heavier heatsinks that modern processors require with less chance of them
causing damage to the processor or the socket (and secondarily to the rest
of your system, if one of these were to break loose, especially when
transporting the case).

John

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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] New AMD Athlon 64 3000+


> The motherboard manual only describes the clip on fan installation.
> The fan has no manual included:} Just very vague instruction printed
>  on the side of the box. Have you build this type of unit? There is no
>  problem with this metal support under the motherboard? It has a pad
>  on top of the support. My concern is shorting out the motherboard.
>  This new type fan must be to reduce the chances of damaging the
> motherboard when using a screwdriver with the clip on fans.

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